Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about the need for sex paperwork so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read Adult Braces by Lindy West. Joining us to discuss this non-monogamous memoir is Margaret H.

Willison, podcaster, culture writer, Bossy Dame, and the newest member of the culture study team.

Hi, Margaret. Hi. I feel like I should have added,

um, like former polyamorist. Yes. Because it does I feel, you know, inform my experience of

reading this book. Yes. You are qualified. You also, um, I mean, you're, you're a friend of the

podcast, friend of the internet. You've been on

worship of sellers before. You've also, this is not your first adult braces rodeo.

No. Because you appeared on an episode of the Love Letters podcast to talk about adult braces.

I did. Where, well, basically, we talked a little bit about adult braces as bookends on either end of the episode I previously recorded about my disastrous thruple.

Yes.

And it's a great episode.

And we'll link to it.

And you should listen to that if you haven't already.

Yeah.

I listen to that.

And I was like, this is so nice.

And like love letters is such a lovely, like, produced show. And I was like, this is so nice and like Love Letters is such a lovely like

produced show and I was like, but what if instead we gave Margaret, in addition, rather,

we gave Margaret an opportunity to just like, yeah, as long as we wanted in the most unhinged

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